The Business Edge

By: Marcia Zidle
  • Summary

  • Your entrepreneurial vision has taken hold. Your business is growing. It's everything you hoped for and more. Or is it? With growth come bigger headaches: more hiring, more capital, more customers to satisfy, more employees to deal with, more plates to juggle and more demands on your time. Whether you realize it or not, you are experiencing Growing Pains! On The Business Edge, with host Marcia Zidle, The Smart Moves Coach, you will hear how to make the leap from running a stressful business that is always putting out fires to leading a successful company that operates like a finely tuned management machine. You will meet savvy, street smart entrepreneurs and business leaders who’ll share their stories of success and even missteps as well as practical solutions to the unique challenges faced by growing companies.
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Episodes
  • Bring Out the Leader in You!
    Nov 18 2016
    A couple of decades ago, companies helped managers transition into leaders by following this proven leadership methodology using paper based planner: Understand your values, define your long-term objectives and focus on your daily tasks so that they would align to your individual growth. With the smartphone revolution, point apps emerged and the paper based planners died along with the leadership methodology that supported it. Zain Ali, CEO of Aezee (A to Z), has created the first integrated app designed to allow companies to bring back leadership development for the next generation and also leverages technology to automate the functions that were manual and mundane in paper based planners. Aezee allow users to define Goals, focus on improving their Values based on best practices, take Notes with pictures and emails before leaving the meeting, manage Daily Tasks with priority, gain productivity with List and eCards. Bring out the leader in you by leveraging the Aezee methodology.
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    56 mins
  • With Success Comes Even Great Responsibilities
    Nov 11 2016
    How can Women Entrepreneurs build a successful business and realize their vision. Sonu Ratra, Co-Founder of Akraya shares insights into how the company has built a winning culture, a Best Places to Work winner and the preferred Staffing partner for large enterprise customers.The Staffing Industry is constantly evolving and staffing companies that want to survive must continue to evaluate how they operate and move with changing times. Ratra shares her advice on why it is critical to invest time and effort in organizations that support diverse businesses such as WBENC, NMSDC and USPAACC. Ratra believes that with success comes even bigger responsibilities to your people, community and environment. She talks about the company’s strong sense of social responsibility through several programs, the most recent one being ‘Women Back to Work’.
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    54 mins
  • Full Show
    Nov 4 2016
    R. Shawn McBride owns two business: McBride For Business, LLC and The R. Shawn McBride Law Firm, PLLC. After spending 10 years of the early part of his career working for large law firms he began his entrepreneurial journey in 2012. What's unique about Shawn and his business is not only is he an entrepreneur – he helps other entrepreneurs in their journey. He has built a successful career through empowering himself by using The 3 Laws of Empowerment to create a life he loves. He learned the 3 Laws of Empowerment by working with countless business owners and his own journey and now a portion of his business is devoted to speaking and teaching these lessons. Shawn's book, Business Blunders!, was written to address common issue he saw when clients came to him after they had gotten into unfortunate situations.
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    52 mins

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